How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable

By Alan S. Blinder. 2007

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Who on Earth Can Work from Home? (2020, background): “Avdiu and Nayyar (2020), following Blinder (2009) and using O*NET surveys for the United States, create an index of face-to-face interactions based on the intensity of particular tasks that involve: (1) establishing and maintaining personal relationships; (2) assisting and caring for others; (3)…”
Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks, and Wages (2013, unknown): “Empirical papers by Blinder ð2007Þ and Jensen andKletzer ð2010Þ analyze the task content of US jobs to assess their potential for international offshoring.”
Occupation and the Political Economy of Trade: Job Routineness, Offshorability, and Protectionist Sentiment (2017, background): “Blinder 2007.”
Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs (2010, unknown): “To make these predictions empirically operational we have followed the lead of previous empirical studies (Blinder, 2007; Jensen and Kletzer, 2007; Peri and Sparber, 2009) that have indicated that tasks that intensively use cognitive-communication and non-routine skills are harder to offshore and,…”
Export Versus FDI and the Communication of Complex Information (2012, methodology): “O*NET lists 277 different skills, abilities, work activities, etc. Blinder (2007) and Jensen and Kletzer (2007) use this data to construct subjective rankings of the offshorability of service occupations.”
Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure (2011, unknown): “13Blinder (2010) did not compute his index for Category IV occupations (533 occupations out of 817), that are deemed impossible to offshore. Although, Jensen and Kletzer (2010) report their index for 457 occupations, it is not available for many blue-collar occupations (occupations SOC 439199 and up”
Revisiting the employment impact of offshoring (2014, unknown): “As a remedy, I select all the occupations that Blinder (2007) classifies as “Highly non-offshorable” and give them an index of 1.”
INTRODUCTIONOffshoring administrative and technical work: New fields for understanding the global enterprise (2009, background): “This questioning was provoked by the offshoring of higher value-added services (see, for example, Blinder, 2007; Gomory & Baumol, 2000; Samuelson, 2004).”
Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings. NBER Working Paper No. 16082. (2010, unknown): “32 Simultaneously , these technological advances have dramatically lowered the cost of o¤shoring information - based tasks to foreign worksites ( Blinder , 2007 ; Jensen and Kletzer , 2008 and forthcoming ; Blinder and Krueger , 2009 ; Oldesnki , 2009 ) .”
Do concerns about labor market competition shape attitudes toward immigration? New evidence☆ (2015, unknown): “Notice that the ranking is meant to be ordinal not cardinal (see Blinder (2009) for details).”